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y, Letters Patent No. 105,602, dated July 19, 1870.

The Schedule referred `to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, W. L. SELLECK, of .Beetowm in the county of Grant and. State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and useful Improvement iu Water- Wheels; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full and exact description of lsaid invention, which will enable those skilled in the art tomake and use the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, inwhich- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my invention;

Figure 2, a sectional View; and

Figure 3, lview of the bucket.,

Similar letters of'referencc in cach of the figures indicate corresponding parts.

The objectof my invention is to produce a waterwheel superior to others in use.

A is the top of the stationary part of the curb..

B, the hollow box for the upright shaft to work in.

C, the upright wheel-shaft.

D, the vgate-plate with sluts in it, which, when moved, will open and close the gates..

E, pins attached to the gates, and passing up through' slots in the top of` A, and through diagonal slots in the plate D.v As t-he plate D is turned, these pins are thrown out or in, and thus the gates are opened or closed.

F, chutes to give the water `the proper direction onto the wheel. y s r i G, gates. 1-

H, the lower part of the curb. f I, pins which go through the outer arms ot' vt-h gates, and on which the 4gates swing as they are opened or closed.

K, buckets of the wheels., rIlhese, at the upper part, project out over the lower part. of the curb H, so as to take the force of .the water direct, and the lower part of the buckets has a reacting curve, so as to use the water both direct and reacting.

L, the shaft to open and close thegates with.

M, pinion on shaft L.

N, cog-gear on plate D, forming a rack into which meshes pinion M.

,0, screws in box B to adj ustshaft C. l), step for shaft C.

\ Q, a bar acoss the lower part of the curb H, and in which step P stands.

R, the yhub of the wheel to which buckets K are attached.

S, back iiange of the buckets.

Operation.

Set the wheel ina fiume surrounded with water, and turn shaft L that will open the gates, and the lwater, being directed by the chutes li,'will first strike the buckets direct, and then will pass down onto the reacting part of the bucket and propel the wheel.

Claims. 1. A-water-wheei, with upper part of the buckets K projecting out` over the lo\\ ver part of the curb H, 

